4. 'Martin needs some help,'
I said. 'Get him to sit down.'
I needed to get away from the crowd on the deck. There was some important information in my mind, somewhere hidden.
If i could get away, stay awake ... I started towards the bridge, to look for my bag.
On my way i passed the chief engineer.
He was covered with mud and oil.
His eyes stared at me in horror.
'How are things below?' I asked.
'Several men dead.
Water everywhere.
It was a bomb, you know.
It mush have been set off by radio signal.
But why?'
I shook my head, helplessly, but i suddenly remembered the man with bright red hair and a pair of binoculars. Howard mattingly, the hockey player boom boom had seen in an unusual place, had red hair.
I forgot the ache in my shoulder.
I needed to find mattingly.
Before he got away.
I turned away from sheridan and looked for my bag.
I didn't want to follow mattingly without the smith and wesson.